Images, writings and graphics created by James F. Harrington are the copyrighted work of James F. Harrington, of Saugus, Massachusetts - USA
Want to reproduce my images or writings? Ask permission!
Call Jim Harrington at 781-244-5655.
I very often allow the use of my photographs at no charge when it is a not-for-profit use. I allowed the creator of this site use 2 of my photos, ( NH&VT ). He called and asked permission. He provided credit to the photographer. Here's another example of where I allowed non-profit use of my images at no charge.
As a photographer, who frequently sells rights to my images, I take copyright violation seriously and I aggressively search for, and find, violators of my copyright. For example:
I found one of my photos in use on a CD cover produced by a company in England. My first e-mails to the company went unanswered so I pointed out the details of the infringement on this page.
Several months later months later I sent more e-mails requesting payment and payment was sent. However, I then received an e-mail which stated: "It is impossible to ask your permission, if you do not have any credits on your photographs at source...."This is libelous. If you do not remove this immediately we will be forced to consider taking action against you."
They make me out to be the bad guy! Read on...
The ability to obtain content from the Web, does not give one the right duplicate and republish it. Some people are just not aware of this. Others are aware of it, and do it anyway. The worst offenders do it to make money, from someone else's work! See the Hall of Shame below. If you hot-link my photos directly into your for-profit Web page, that infringes on my copyright.
If you want to reproduce my pictures or writing call me and ask permission. Your specific use will determine the conditions for rights I may grant.
When for profit rights are requested, I usually ask fair market value, full payment of which would grant the rights. If you offer a product or service I may be willing to barter.
No fee NON-profit use of my images may be granted in some cases, but I'd likely require adjacent credit with hyper-linking to the page of my choosing, if the rights are for Web.
Recently, several people have contacted me asking if they could reproduce this text , on their copyright notice page! How ironic is that? I tell them "Type your own page!"
Unauthorized reproduction of my work which intended to make money or is included in a money making project is NOT OK. The Internet makes it easy to find duplicated work.
Teachers have contacted me about using my materials in printed form. For example, one teacher called to ask about printing multiple copies of my digital photography tips page. That type of use is encouraged and permission would not be required... as long pages are printed in full, and as is, including the source URL and copyright notice.
Before duplicating material I've written or my photography anywhere, on the Web OR in print, call Jim Harrington at 781-244-5655 or e-mail jim at saugus dot net.
If your use is not for profit, I may grant usage right but with conditions, such as adjacent credit and or a link to the Web page of my choice.
Creating links from your Web pages
directly to my images files is NOT OK.
There are acceptable uses of my work. If you want to print my a single copy of one of my pictures to block a stain on your wall or use them in a homework assignment, that's fine. That would be considered personal use and not for profit.
If you want a high quality print of one of my images, call me at 781-244-5655.
Computer wallpaper etc. is acceptable but only for your own personal use. Do not remove copyright notices from my photos.
If you intend to make any copies of my work for any purpose, ask permission. Call Jim at 781-244-5655.
Photographs and Web pages do not need a copyright notice on them to be protected by copyright law. All original works are copyright protected as soon as they are created.
Unauthorized deriviative works is also copyright infringement. This means if you make a painting based on a photo, or make a photo part of another photo, or edit the photo and republish it, you still need permission from the copyright holder. Original works do not need to be registered to be covered by copyright law. Read Enforcing Your Copyrights.
HALL OF SHAME - COPYRIGHT INFRINGERS
Many, many times I have discovered people who have copied my work (writing, images,graphics etc.) to enhance their Web sites. Some people just do not understand what copyright is all about. In some cases it was just poor judgment and inexperience with such things. In others cases it is, well, read on...
1.)JPM made a Web site for a Hampton Beach business a while back. He used one of my photos without permission. JPM never contacted me before making my photo part of this "for-profit" Web site. My copyright notice and contact info had been cropped off the photo (and a no-parking sign cloned out). Every page on the site finished with a credit to him as the designer.
I contacted JPM by telephone, by e-mail and I mailed him a printed I invoice for his payment for use of my image. My fee was very reasonable, under the circumstances. I explained that I expected payment within 1 week.
JPM tried to shift the blame torward someone else and called me ignorant and unprofessional in one of his e-mails.
Only after I explained the steps I planned to take in response to his actions did the copyright infringer finally pay for his use of my image. JM explained that since he was now paying for the image, he expected me to send him a high res version of the image file. .....So he could use it again! JPM then found this page and claimed it was defamation of his character.
2.) Someone...Joe Sano? was recently using at least one of my images, without permission, to grace one of the Web pages he "aggregated" at route one saugus news dot com. The site in question has ads on it, which in my view makes it a for-profit use of my photo. After I contacted his company Mediagaragellc.com about the infringement, I received an e-mail. Below is part of it.
"Thank you for bringing this miss-step to our attention. We will see to it that our sometimes overzealous posters and content aggregators are schooled in the proper crediting of materials."
"We have found that the republishing of material with the appropriate credits is a boon to the individuals whose materials would not be recognized otherwise and typically VERY much appreciated."
Content aggregators? Let's call it what it really is. This person seems to be under the impression that creating Web sites by copying other peoples work (photos and text ) is just a great idea!
He thinks he's doing others a favor, by duplicating their work! He violates copyright, and then puts his copyright notice on pilfered material. Shame on you!
3.) Someone at "digital slides dot net" made a word-for-word duplicate of my slide film scanning page to start a business... to compete against mine! Very poor judgment. They've since changed it around some, but only after repeated requests, starting with a 6:30am phone call.
Several unoriginal, start-up slide scanning businesses have copied material from my slide scanning page including:
4.) The the person responsible for the html material at digmypics dot com, Scott Crossen (of Arizona) one of the founders of the company, copied portions of my slide scanning page content to his Web pages, even my business name and others. He kept the copied content there only while the big search engine crawled his pages. I found my content in the search engine's cache of his pages. He was attempting to improve his page rank with search engines (and save advertising costs) by duplicating my work.
I called him up and sent him several e-mails about this unethical tactic. First he denied it, then Scott called it a "glitch". He now labels his business as "The Most Trusted..." How ironic is that?
5.) Somebody at OES.org replicated one of my photos to use as the main intro image of a clearly for-profit page. My copyright notice and contact info had been stripped off the image. When I wrote and asked for removal, the person responded with this "there is a possibility that you are have used the real photographer's image without his/her permission" and "How your border was removed is beyond me," "I'm certain I took it from the net somewhere" This response prompted me to post the details here.
5.) Early in 2006, I was contacted by a Web site designer. She was redesigning a Web site, probably for big pay, since the site was for a large business.
She requested rights to one of my images and offered "credit". I responded quickly, asking exactly how the image would be used so I could provide a quote. I made it clear that I expected payment for this "for profit" use. She wrote back saying my images would not be needed.
About 6 months later, I looked at the site she had redesigned. Guess what? There was my image, right on the main page.
She never bothered to get back to me about usage rights before publishing the photo.
I e-mailed her an invoice ( the price was not negotiable ) then called her. The price might have been a little higher than otherwise, since she used it without permission. She sent payment right out.
Publishing the details here might make other photographers, who post images to the Web, aware of what to watch out for.
It might also make a few Web site designers aware of what they should not do!
6.) Since this copyright notice page has been in place for several years, I'm now finding that people are copying my copyright notice page. Please don't! Write your own page! It's not that difficult!
If you find usage of my pictures or writings anywhere on the Web or in print let me know. If it's unauthorized use, you'll be rewarded in one way or another. (Automated text scraper sites not included.)
Chances are, if you have posted popular or worthwhile material on the Web, it has been copied...for profit!
I've confronted at least a dozen people about copying my work to their Web sites. Most remove the work they've copied when I ask them. Some drag their feet or try to get away with just changing my work a bit. Very few offer apologies. In fact no one has. The ones who respond, often blame someone else.
How do a find the copied text and images you might ask? Search engines make it easy. Take random, strings of text from my pages, and search for them using Google. Quotation marks must be added at either end of the string for those types of searches. A search of Google or Yahoo's image search option is another method.
I very often allow the use of my photographs at no charge when it is a not-for-profit use. I allowed the creator of this site use 2 of my photos, ( NH&VT ). He called and asked permission. He provided credit to the photographer. Here's another example of where I allowed non-profit use of my images at no charge.
